Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers’ wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

information related to the immigration stock it may delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required stock in the long …

immigration can cause increases in crime is warranted, considering the fact that there is much empirical evidence that suggest the …€œImmigration and Crime: Evidence from Canada†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 135) analyses the relationship between immigration and crime … could be expected that a selective immigration policy of this nature, may bring more “complementary†new immigrant …

la question de savoir si l’immigration peut augmenter le taux de criminalité, quand on considère le fait qu’il existe des … affilié du RCCMTC Haimin Zhang (Université de la Colombie-Britannique) et intitulée « L’immigration et le crime : éléments de … preuve au Canada » (Rapport de recherche du RCCMTC n° 135) analyse le rapport entre l’immigration et la criminalité et …

driven by local concentrations of ethnic minorities. The immigration debate, however, has arguably changed since the EU … expansions and the economic crisis of the past decade. This paper tests whether public support for immigration restriction is … suggest that support for immigration restriction is higher in regions where more immigrants are unemployed, but lower in …

What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have … immigration density to native flight and relatively slower housing price appreciation. Further evidence indicates that these …

Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination … immigration inflow equal to 1% of a city’s population is associated with increases in average rents and housing values of about 1 …. I use instrumental variables based on a "shift-share" of national levels of immigration into metropolitan areas. An …

This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices to immigration flows for 85 districts from 2001 to 2006. The … results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price inflation …, nationwide rent control, and modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1% of an area’s population is coincident …